What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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All good things must come to an end.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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